Fall/Winter Meeting Speaker Bio's

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FALL / WINTER MEETING - SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES

Marek Owca, Chief Flight Nurse, Metro Life Flight
Bio is pending

Ashoke Talukdar, Information Security Officer, MetroHealth System

Ashoke Talukdar has been involved in information technology for seventeen years.
He has been employed by the MetroHealth System since 1995 and has held a variety of technology positions. In 2001, Mr. Talukdar was appointed to his present position as Manager for Information Security & Compliance. He is responsible for establishing and maintaining MetroHealth's information security practice. Mr. Talukdar holds a B.S. degree in Physics from Davidson College (NC), and an M.S.
degree in Biomedical Engineering from Case Western Reserve University. He is currently attending Cleveland State University, Cleveland-Marshall College of Law and is scheduled to graduate with his law degree in December, 2005.

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Michael Bennett, National Sales Director, BlueBridge Networks

Michael Bennett's technology career began in 1999, selling pioneering e-commerce processes utilizing technology to communicate with local and global clients. Telecoms early infrastructure growth allowed Mr. Bennett to be an instrumental part of connecting Northeast Ohio businesses to a state-of-the-art Fiber Network, focusing on security and high bandwidth applications. Experiences led him to BlueBridge Networks. BlueBridge, a leader in business continuity, specializes in disaster avoidance and recovery services. BlueBridge is a safe haven for mission critical data and IT infrastructure

Daniel DeSantis, Chief Technology Officer, BlueBridge Networks

Dan DeSantis has been creating and managing technology companies and platforms for more than fifteen years. His strategic and entrepreneurial thinking is behind some of the most dynamic technology start-ups in Northeast Ohio. Mr. DeSantis was a founding partner of Stratos Internet Group. As the Chief Technological Officer of Startos, Dan designed, built, and supported the technology infrastructure of a large regional Internet Service Provider. Mr. DeSantis is an often sought out speaker in the Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Empire of Network Technology. Experiences led him to BlueBridge Networks. BlueBridge is a leader in business continuity, specializing in disaster avoidance and recovery services. BlueBridge is a safe haven for mission critical data and IT infrastructure.

Edward Klimas, President, OB Everywhere, Inc.

Edward Klimas is President and co-founder of OB Everywhere, Inc., Mr. Klimas possesses a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from Cleveland State University, a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University and further graduate studies at Case Western Reserve University. Ed has held various positions in research and technology development, has guided executive management with technology issues for over thirty years and is a published author and lecturer. In the late 1980’s he advised Rockwell Automation’s Vice President of Advanced Architecture Development on future software trends. For the past fifteen years he has been Managing Director of Linea Engineering, a software engineering firm he founded whose clients have included institutions ranging from IBM, The Federal Reserve, Deluxe Check Printers, American Greetings, Progressive Insurance and numerous Fortune 500 institutions. During this time Mr. Klimas has been instrumental in developing mission critical secure systems that have been widely praised for their cost effectiveness, on time delivery, high performance and robustness.

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